Two issues of this edition are known: this one with type ornaments on the title pages, the other with a cut of an armillary sphere, or the "angel" device

Vol. 2 has separate title: Memoires de l'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan. Qui contiennent la description d'une grande étenduë de païs e ce continent, l'intérêt des françois & des anglois, leurs commerces, leurs navigations, les moeurs & les coutumes des sauvages &c. Avec un petit dictionnaire de la langue du païs. Le tout enrichi de cartes & de figures

Pagination: v. 1: [24], 279, [1] p., [15] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 2: 220, [20] p., [11] leaves of plates (3 folded)

Errors in pagination: v. 2, p. 194, 218, and 219 misnumbered 164, 418 and 29

Signatures: v. 1: *¹² A-L¹² M (M8 verso blank); v. 2: A-K¹² (K11 verso, K12 blank)

Includes index

"Explication de quelques termes qui se trouvent dand le premier tome": v. 1, p. 267-279

"Petit dictionaire [sic] de la langue des sauvages": v. 2, p. [195]- 220, includes a brief discussion of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages and has divisional title page

Title pages printed in red and black

Woodcut printer's device on title page; head and tailpieces; initials

Some copies have an insert with caption title: L'Autheur au lecteur. A Londres, ce 26. Novembre V. Stile. This contains an apology for the errata with a partial list of corrections. Cf. Sabin

Greenly, A.H. Lahontan

Pilling, J. Algonquian languages

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary speckled calf

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